An Arizona man convicted of killing a college student in 1978 was put to death today after a nearly eight-year hiatus in the US state's use of the death penalty brought on by an execution that critics say was botched — and the difficulty state officials faced in sourcing lethal injection drugs.Clarence Dixon, 66, died by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence for his murder conviction in the killing of 21-year-old Arizona State University student Deana Bowdoin, making him the sixth person to be executed in the US in 2022.Dixon's death was announced late Wednesday morning local time by Frank Strada, a deputy director with Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry.
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